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Theory Seminars 2024/25

The ‘Theory Seminars' is a series of talks given to the SNS Theoretical Physics group.

Seminars usually take place on Thursday from 11:30 to 12:30 in Aula Mancini. They last 60 minutes, leaving time for questions and discussion also during the talk.

Oct 10, 24
11:30
Aula Volterra
Alessio Notari (Barcelona U.)

Dark Radiation and Dark Energy with DESI 2024 BAO and the H0 tension

Oct 17, 24
11:30
Aula Mancini
Karapet Mkrtchyan (Imperial College, London)

A democratic formulation for p-form interactions

Oct 24, 24
11:30
Aula Mancini
Giacomo Brunello (Padova U.)

On one-loop corrections to the Bunch-Davies wavefunction of the Universe

Oct 31, 24
11:30
Aula Mancini
Davide Perrone (Geneva U.)

Ringdown with bumps, stability of black holes’ quasi-normal modes

Nov 07, 24
11:30
Aula Mancini
Luca Santoni (APC, Paris)

Symmetries of Vanishing Nonlinear Love Numbers of Schwarzschild Black Holes

Nov 11, 24
11:30
Aula Contini
Benjamin Wallisch (Stockholm U.)

Extracting the Primordial Signal from Large-Scale Structure Power Spectra

Nov 14, 24
11:30
Aula Volterra
Mao Zeng (Edinburgh U.)

Unity of scattering amplitude and worldline approaches to binary dynamics

Nov 21, 24
11:30
Aula Mancini
Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH, Zurich)

Tensionless AdS3/CFT2 duality

Nov 28, 24
11:30
Aula Bianchi Scienze
Thomas Basile (Mons U.)

On the deep superstring spectrum

Dec 12, 24
11:30
Aula Mancini
Davide Cassani (INFN, Padua)

The gravitational path integral, supersymmetry and black holes

Jan 09, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Waltraut Knop (Stony Brook, NY)

Where is tree-level string theory? 

Jan 16, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Roberto Longo (Rome U., Tor Vergata)

Von Neumann algebras and a Bekenstein-type bound in QFT

Jan 20, 25
11:30
Aula Fermi
Anna Biggs (Princeton U.)

Quantum gravity corrections to the spectrum and state of evaporating 4d charged black holes

Feb 06, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Francisco Vazão (Max Planck, Munich)

Cosmohedra

Feb 13, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Roberta Angius (IFT, Madrid)

Dynamical Cobordism: A Window into Infinite Distance in Field Space

Feb 20, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Michele Cicoli (Bologna U.)

Recent progress on inflation and dark energy from string theory

Feb 21, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Tobias Hansen (Durham U.)

AdS string amplitudes from single-valuedness

Feb 27, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Oliver Janssen (EPFL, Lausanne)

The no-boundary puzzle: a review and a possible resolution

Mar 20, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Andrea Sanfilippo (Tech. U., Munich)

Effective field theory in de Sitter space and the method of regions

Mar 27, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Yixuan Li (Padua U.)

The Statistics of BPS Chaos

Apr 10, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Arthur Lipstein (Durham U.)

Cosmological Dressing Rules

Apr 24, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Konstantinos Sfetsos (Athens U.)

Physics and mathematics of SU(N) ferromagnets

May 08, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Julio Parra-Martinez (IHES, Paris)

Soft theorems from higher symmetry

May 19, 25
16:30
Via Roma 3
Andrew Gomes (EPFL, Lausanne)

Coset Insights into Hydrodynamic Effective Theory

May 21, 25
10:00
Aula Fermi
Zhenbin Yang (Tsinghua U., Beijing)

Comments on the de Sitter Double Cone

May 22, 25
11:30
Aula Mancini
Arnab Kundu (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Driven CFTs, Dynamical Phase Transitions & Geometric Duals

May 29, 25
14:30
Aula Bianchi Scienze
Andrea Puhm (Amsterdam U.)

The black hole–string correspondence with a spin

Jun 05, 25
14:30
Aula Fermi
Stephan Stieberger (MPI, Munich)

High-energy string theory, celestial holography and tensionless strings

Jun 12, 25
11:30
Aula Fermi
Gabriele Casagrande (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)

A unique coupling of the massive spin-2 field to supergravity

Jun 16, 25
11:30
Aula Contini
Marios Petropoulos (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)

Carroll-Galilei Duality in Hydrodynamics

Jun 16, 25
14:30
Aula Contini
Massimo Porrati (New York U.)

Local operator algebras of charged states in gauge theory and gravity

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